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Toomish retweeted
MRI wait times 2-7x longer than medically recommended maximums won't be fixed by our usual approaches of "we're trying our best" and tossing a bit more money at them.
Yes, we're short on resources. But this is primarily a management and accountability problem.
If @LDoerkson's new government wants to make a serious dent in health care, they must start by relentlessly focusing on RESULTS. Not by how much they spend. But what they get for that spending.
Everyone has ideas on how to fix health care. But given system complexity, it's the implementation of those ideas that matters. Don't be like the NDP and figure the job is done once the press release goes out. Keep focused on measurable results.
Toomish retweeted
Why does it cost $250 to see my doctor?
Because it’s a lot cheaper than going to college, medical school, residency and accumulating 2 decades of experience.
It’s the deal of the century.
Toomish retweeted
.@grok who gives more money to the news media
North Korea or Canada?
Toomish retweeted
Wait time stats for CT/MRI scans are 2-7x above benchmark maximums. Fixable?
We do about 500k outpt scans per year. If paid privately, at ~$1000 each, that's $500M per year.
Over last ten years, health authority "corporate" expenditures (head office bureaucracy…) increased by $2,349M per year.
In other words, diverting about one fifth of the INCREASE in health authority bureaucracy would cover the cost of every outpatient scan in BC.
Our spending choices matter.
Toomish retweeted
The biggest unreported story from yesterday: Carney snuck into the budget a massive immigration increase with the LARGEST NUMBER OF NEW PERMANENT RESIDENTS EVER next year.
Nearly 200,000 more than Trudeau’s highest-ever number year. When we have a shortage of jobs, homes, and health care.
Now we know why Carney snuck his immigration plan into a budget when everyone was distracted by the midterms and right before Parliament shuts for 10 days.
Unacceptable. This needs a real debate.
Toomish retweeted
This is a completely deranged headline. And if you don’t understand why, you’re part of the problem.
Opinion: If Canada wants economic security, it must tolerate a bigger government hand in business theglobeandmail.com/business…
Toomish retweeted
Congratulations to Jennifer Whiteside on being named Interim Leader of the BC NDP.
I sat across the floor from her for a long time and she is a serious person who works hard for the people she represents.
A good opposition makes for a better government, and I expect her to hold us to account while we get to work delivering what we promised British Columbians.
Toomish retweeted
My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
Toomish retweeted
“You can’t build a provincial economy on whale watching and coffee shops.”
We need to be a province that builds, makes and creates. We need a provincial industrial strategy and we need to get serious about the loss of industrial land to real estate speculation.
Once industrial land is converted to other uses, it is extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to get it back. And without that land, where exactly do we expect the next generation of manufacturers, skilled tradespeople and industrial employers to go?
This is one of the most consequential challenges we face in British Columbia, with a lot of damage already done. I hope the new government makes it an urgent priority.
Toomish retweeted
Premier-elect Lorne Doerkson shares a message to British Columbians at his first post-election press conference:
“Too many British Columbians have stopped believing that government can get anything done — my job is to prove them wrong.”
Toomish retweeted
Lois Cardinal belongs in the NDP party, like all the other lunatics.
She can use her victim card to jump to the start of the line.
